{"id":14911,"date":"2020-02-24T14:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-latest-news-italy-lombardy-south-korea-iran-japan-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-xi-jinping-update"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:48:21","slug":"coronavirus-live-updates-south-korean-cases-spike-over-760-as-asian-markets-jitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14911","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Iran disputes death toll in city of Qom \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister says 12 people have died and 66 been infected<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-dead-in-iranian-city-of-qom\">Iran denies cover-up after reports of 50 deaths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-china-wuhan-lockdown-economy-south-korea-npc-annual-parliament\">China postpones National People\u2019s Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/feb\/24\/stock-markets-coronavirus-italy-airlines\">Stock markets slide amid fears spread could hit growth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jan\/23\/tell-us-have-you-been-affected-by-the-coronavirus\">Share your experiences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-24T11:48:21.367Z\">11.48am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s government dismissed claims the country\u2019s death toll from the coronavirus could be as high as 50. Authorities vowed to be transparent after being accused of covering up the deadliest coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak outside China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-02-24T11:39:04.117Z\">11.39am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>A fifth person infected with the coronavirus has died in Italy, the chief of the Civil Protection agency said on Monday, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Italian media reported that the dead patient was 88 and came from the region of Lombardy. The four other people who have died of the illness were also elderly and at least three of them had been suffering serious underlying health problems<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-latest-news-italy-lombardy-south-korea-iran-japan-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-xi-jinping-update\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health minister says 12 people have died and 66 been infectedIran denies cover-up after reports of 50 deathsChina postpones National People\u2019s CongressStock markets slide amid fears spread could hit growthShare your experiences 11.48am GMT Iran\u2019s govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/378"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}